Development trends…
November 14, 2006 Michael Pollock’s Gaming Industry Observer
NIMBY MOVEMENT PLACES CASINOS AT TROUBLING END OF SCALE; STARTING WITH BIG HANDICAP
Editor’s Note: Casinos are widely heralded as generators of prodigious employment. Of considerably lesser repute is the heat that casinos generate in the development stage. As the chart above shows, the public sees only landfill development in a worse light. The poll that generated this data was conducted by Saint Consulting, a Hingham, Mass., firm that specializes in winning zoning and land-use battles. Chairman/CEO P. Michael Saint and Vice Chairman Robert J. Flavell analyze the casino-land use issue below; they will also deliver a special presentation on this issue at our 3rd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress in March.
